I am an evil giraffe. Who no longer blogs about politics.

If you were planning to order something on Amazon.comanyway, well… that link is set up through my affiliate program. I’ll cheerfully take my cut (I’ll also cheerfully note that if your favorite blogger* is making noises about money these days than s/he would probably dearly love to get his/her cut, too).

*This applies to lurkers, btw: from what I can tell the Left-sphere has precisely zero in the way of support networks and is about to be disproportionately hit with the Mighty Karmic Hammer of Maximum Obamacare Fun. This would merely make me chuckle, except that even liberals have kids who won’t understand why there’s no Christmas this year.

Soldiers’ Angels is a worthy cause. I’m also going to cheat and link Glenn’s massive list from the Katrina relief efforts. Of course as a geek I have to second Moe’s recommendation of Child’s Play. They have lots of ways to donate, lots of groups holding fundraisers that feed into the CP fund.

I’ve had several charities brought to my attention lately that don’t want/deserve my money, but listing them would spoil the spirit of the post here. Do your due diligence before you give money is all that I’ll advise there.